email

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/22571649

According to 15 U.S.C. 7704 §5(a)(5):

INCLUSION OF IDENTIFIER, OPT-OUT, AND PHYSICAL ADDRESS IN COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL.—

(A) It is unlawful for any person to initiate the transmission of any commercial electronic mail message to a protected computer unless the message provides—

(i) clear and conspicuous identification that the message is an advertisement or solicitation;
(ii) clear and conspicuous notice of the opportunity under paragraph (3) to decline to receive further commercial electronic mail messages from the sender; and
(iii) a valid physical postal address of the sender.

When my text-based mail client receives an HTML-only email message, it tries to render the HTML as text. It’s sometimes a jumbled up unreadable heap of garbage because the HTML is malformed and relies on a forgiving/tolerant rendering engine. Even when the HTML is proper and standards compliant, links are not exposed to text rendered. E.g. a msg will say “to unsubscribe and stop receiving emails, update preferences here.”

Where is “here”? That is just raw text. Sure, an advanced user can do a number of things to dig up that link. But I doubt that would pass the legal standard of “clear and conspicuous”.

Anyone have confidence either way whether HTML-only spam is legally actionable on this basis?

I usually use a feed reader to gather news, but some news sites use newsletters instead of distributing feeds. As a user, is there any advantage to receive news using newsletters over feeds?

I only see the option to encrypt the mail.

https://thesweetsetup.com/hey-email-disrupted-my-email-workflow/

https://write.privacytools.io/freddy/my-take-on-email

https://maildown.dev/

https://abevoelker.com/emails-successor-the-personal-log-and-inter-personal-protocol/

https://kevq.uk/email-is-not-broken/

Mailmask lets you create unlimited temporary email addresses on-the-fly as you type, all of which forward to your real inbox. You can easily disable an address at any time and thereby stop receiving that email: https://msk.sh/

Our research shows that emojis in subject lines increase negative sentiment toward an email and do not increase the likelihood of an email being opened: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/emojis-email/

https://capiche.com/e/email-apps-as-a-remix

With SubTach you can easily attach just a portion of a file to an email -- no need to open the file, delete pages, and save a copy: https://www.subtach.com

https://www.axios.com/quest-improve-email-efficiency-basecamp-slack-superhuman-67bf7b76-6db3-439d-a28c-b0e053055ab6.html

https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/24/how-we-used-internet-during-lockdowns-proves-ending-net-neutrality-was-the-right-call/

https://waleedkhan.name/blog/mail-server/

https://bye.fyi/

https://blog.cyborch.com/how-i-cleared-my-inbox-of-calendar-updates/

https://taoofemail.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-inbox-zero

https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/19/Mail-service-provider-recommendations.html

https://lazybear.io/posts/whats-wrong-with-email/